Venue: Sala Massimo, Saracen Sands Hotel and Congress Center
Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy
Date: Friday, Sept. 12, 2025
13:20 - 13:30 Opening Remarks
Prof. Lucio Marcenaro, University of Genova, Italy
13:30 - 14:15 Keynote Talk I
Chair: Prof. Raj Thilak Rajan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Title: Fundamentals of Tensor-based Near-Field Localization in Wireless Communications and Radar
Presenter: Prof. Martin Haardt, TU-Ilmenau, Germany
14:15 - 15:30 Oral Session
Chair: Prof. Raj Thilak Rajan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
14:15 - 14:30
Title: Smart Road Assisting CAV Navigation in the Absence of GNSS: Results From On-Field Tests
Presenter: Raffaele Viterbo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
14:30 - 14:45
Title: Automotive Radar: From Classical Processing to AI-Driven Processing
Presenter: Fei Tai, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Art, Germany
14:45 - 15:00
Title: Bayesian KalmanNet: Quantifying Uncertainty in Deep Learning Augmented Kalman Filter
Presenter: Nir Shlezinger, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
15:00 - 15:15
Title: P1954 - A Standard for Spectrum Agile, Self Organizing Communication for Drone Networks
Presenter: Amir Leshem, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
15:15 - 15:30
Title: Generative Models for Incremental Learning to Advance Autonomous Agent Evolution: a 3D Perspective
Presenter: Zarif Bin Akhtar, University of Genoa, Italy
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:35 Keynote Talk II
Chair: Prof. Lucio Marcenaro, University of Genova, Italy
Title: Harnessing Frequency Diversity for Enhanced Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Presenter: Prof. Yimin D. Zhang, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
16:35 - 17:50 Students Lightning Talks
Chair: Prof. Lucio Marcenaro, University of Genova, Italy
16:35 - 16:40
Title: Multi-Sensor Fusion of Active and Passive Measurements for Extended Object Tracking
Presenter: H. Zhu, Graz University of Technology, Austria
16:40 - 16:45
Title: Detection and Mitigation of Jamming Signals in GNSS
Presenter: A. Brochard, ISAE-SUPAERO, École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, University of Toulouse, France
16:45 - 16:50
Title: Robust Visual Representation and Semantic Understanding in Autonomous Systems
Presenter: E. Camuffo, University of Padova, Italy
16:50 - 16:55
Title: Situation-aware Beamforming for Automotive Radar Under Uncertain Side Information
Presenter: E. Focante, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
16:55 - 17:00
Title: Near-Field Sensing Using Extremely Large Aperture Arrays
Presenter: C. Giovannetti, University of Bologna, IEIIT-National Research Council, Italy
17:00 - 17:05
Title: Monte Carlo Methods on Lie Groups for Hybrid Inertial-Vision Navigation
Presenter: E. Lopez, ONERA, France
17:05 - 17:10
Title: Event-Based Vision for Robust Video Reconstruction in High-Speed and Low-Light Conditions
Presenter: R. Maqsood, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
17:10 - 17:15
Title: Autonomous Fault Protection in Power Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
Presenter: J. Oelhaf, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
17:15 - 17:20
Title: Multidimensional Beamspace Processing for FMCW Automotive Radar
Presenter: D. Rakhimov, TU-Ilmenau, Germany
17:20 - 17:25
Title: Music Recommendation Systems from User Emotions
Presenter: G. Scavalli Veccia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
17:25 - 17:30
Title: Target Migration and Tangential Velocity Estimation Using Automotive Radar
Presenter: M. Shifrin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
17:30 - 17:35
Title: Investigations on Color Constancy
Presenter: O. Ulucan, University of Greifswald, Germany
17:35 - 17:40
Title: Reinforcement learning in Autonomous Systems with Gaussian-mixture-model Q-functions
Presenter: T. M Vu Duc, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
17:40 - 17:45
Title: From Control Under Uncertainty to Developmental Robotics
Presenter: S. Zarifis, Athena Research Center, Greece
17:45 - 17:50
Title: Harnessing Multimodal Foundation Models for UAV Identification through Acoustic Signatures
Presenter: M.M. Akhtar, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, India
17:50 - 17:55 Conclusions